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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:09:17 +0000FluxBBhttp://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29613#p29613
Thanks YJLee, I was looking for the same thing as gojira and your solution works perfectly. I assume gojira has upgraded his xfce in the meantime so (s)he can do the same… The second video actuaally demonstrates the same thing and the link in the description leads to the news post at http://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1335571200 that sais it's a new feature of Xfce 4.10. Not sure why it doesn't by default enable the shortcut keys W+Up etc. that are at least standard in Lubuntu/Openbox. Openbox 3.5 also enables a bit more customizable tiling (set how much ratio (%) of the display width/height should be filled (until 3.4 you haad to give pixel numbers)) ( http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#MoveResizeTo ) so this could be a good model for xfce. Though for proposals like those by adioe3, the possibility to combine shell commands with wm-specific commands (like tile_up_key and maximize_window_key used in xfconf) would be desirable: usage like "sleep $(zenity --entry --text="Hide for how long?" --entry-text=3; hide_window_key); hide_window_key" (the second hide_window_key actually makes the window visible again)Translating this code into something the shell could execute (xfconf replaces "hide_window_key" with commands of some xfwm application) could be difficult or impossible. The point is just that xfconf would become more flexible if shell commands could be integrated this way.]]>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:09:17 +0000http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29613#p29613http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=28403#p28403
It would be great if the tiling feature could be improved a bit, for example what I'd like to have control over:

* Specify which sides of screen activate the tiling and how (for example I prefer when moving to the top the app to be maximized, not 1/2 screen); this could be configured in the settings manager* Specify a delay before the tiling happens (i.e. 2 sec); this is because sometime you just want to move the window to the side

But these are just wishes - if can do, great! if not it won't stop me using xfce. I use the keyboard shortcuts right now much more.

Bonster thanks but I was kind of hoping for an answer with text or just a hyperlink, not Youtube videos. I can't watch videos on my workplace and also it is so tedious to watch videos; with text, I can read at my own pace and refer back to individual installation steps etc. I feel Youtube videos are not of much help, and don't see any reason to distribute this kind of information in the form of videos anyway. Text is much more accessible to me.